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Alana Lea is a voice for the rainforest. Born in the Mata Atlântica of Rio de Janeiro, Alana moved to the US as a baby. She cultivated her passion for the plant kingdom over forty years: beginning as a landscape designer in Puerto Rico, then as tropical nursery, plant shop and plant maintenance company in Oregon, leading to her present focus as reforestation project coordinator in Brazil.

In 2009 she founded Rainforest ECO Enterprises to generate resources for rainforest renewal, beginning with a line of rainforest print fabrics.

The iGiveTrees crowdfunding campaigns were then launched to gather small gifts from the global public, allowing her to buy organic trees from small rural associations in Brazil, and give them back to the people who live in the degraded rainforest.

Her botanical art has been published in books, magazines and exhibited at the Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Smithsonian Institution and Museum of Natural History.

“Having observed the growth of an idea to renew an endangered Brazilian rainforest, persist through every imaginable form of drought, I feel the strength of spirit present to succeed with the next phase. The people Alana has gathered together from around the globe, who have the capacity to make this vision real, are on the move to do some serious carbon drawdown!”

“Alana Lea is an extraordinary activist who works and writes from a deep spiritual and trustworthy taproot. She inspires us to step forward boldly and participate with our hearts and our personal potency to ensure a nourishing and healthy life for ourselves and everyone alive at this critical time in history, while ensuring the preservation of a healthy and restored ecology for all future generations.”

Tax-deductible DONATIONS keep us going – click on an image below to help us grow!

AFFORESTATION TRAINING

Help sponsor the first Brazilian training of a new generation of environmental entrepreneurs in the Miyawaki method of Afforestation, as recommended by Project Drawdown. We’re bringing Shubhendu Sharma from India to teach the method of his mentor, Dr. Akira Miyawaki. This is a replicatable, organic system of intensive soil preparation, planting of successional native species trees in urban areas, that has been tested globally for more than 40 years. And, we’ll offer scholarships to women who want to learn this as a trade.

NATIVE SPECIES TREES – $25

Help sponsor the gift of trees for an urban food forest. We’ll be planting 300 native species trees in each plot, with an emphasis on tropical staple tree crops. These will include Coconut, Jackfruit, Moringa, Avocado, Mango, Papaya, Pitanga, Aurocaria, Fruita de Conde, Jaibuticaba, Banana, Passionflower, Pineapple and many others! This includes the cost of organic soil amendments, digging equipment, mulch and 2 years of maintenance after plantings. Since there's such a diversity of trees being planted, individual costs vary, so this is a fund toward the whole forest plot, not the cost for one tree.

NATIVE TREE SEEDS – $50

Help sponsor the gift of native species tree seeds from this endangered rainforest. We support back country sustainable seed harvesters who supply their local seed banks and nurseries. These are large bags of seeds, not small packets. The size of the bag depends upon the type of seed, but each one holds approximately 1,000 seeds. This is the way we protect biodiversity.